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First round: just go through my resume. Second round: A coding question in C about memory manipulation. Third round: casual talk about my work experience. Final round: - Session 1: questions about interrupts, ARM exception model, QNX and Linux, and computer architecture. - Session 2: a coding question in C, parsing data from a stream of bytes. - Session 3: asking about my projects, interests, and some related technical concepts. - Session 4: given a physical control system including multiple microcontrollers, actuators, and sensors, explains how it works. - Session 5: 3 coding questions in C related to state machine, bit manipulation, and memory.
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Embedded Firmware Engineer

Interviewed at Aurora Innovation

3.6
Nov 3, 2023

First round: just go through my resume. Second round: A coding question in C about memory manipulation. Third round: casual talk about my work experience. Final round: - Session 1: questions about interrupts, ARM exception model, QNX and Linux, and computer architecture. - Session 2: a coding question in C, parsing data from a stream of bytes. - Session 3: asking about my projects, interests, and some related technical concepts. - Session 4: given a physical control system including multiple microcontrollers, actuators, and sensors, explains how it works. - Session 5: 3 coding questions in C related to state machine, bit manipulation, and memory.

Went through resume. Asked about Digital communication, source coding and channel coding procedure. Rake receiver, convolutional coding concepts. Very few coding questions, asked about static, global, volatile variables.
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Intern, Modem Firmware Engineer

Interviewed at Broadcom

3.3
Aug 31, 2015

Went through resume. Asked about Digital communication, source coding and channel coding procedure. Rake receiver, convolutional coding concepts. Very few coding questions, asked about static, global, volatile variables.

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